[inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv on cspan key with top nonfiction books and authors every weekendo of tv, television for serioustha readers. Nation host Amy Ellis Nutt is our guest and heres the cover of her book, becoming nicole. Who is now call . Guest nicole was born and identical twin boys in 1997. Board and given the name wyatt. This is a chart from the age of two, twoandahalf, identified as they grow. If when i see identified as a girl, didnt say to her parents i think im a girl, said wed like it to be a girl . You know, wed like it to look like a girl . Believed she was a girl and twon middleclass ordinary parents living in the state of maine, need to figure out what that was about. T how host how do they figure it out, or did they . Guest they did. Video of the book is really the mother. These twins were adopted atbirt birth. Kelly knew there were two things that were most important to her as a mother. Ha make sure that her children were safe and happy. She had
[inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv on cspan key with top nonfiction books and authors every weekendo of tv, television for serioustha readers. Nation host Amy Ellis Nutt is our guest and heres the cover of her book, becoming nicole. Who is now call . Guest nicole was born and identical twin boys in 1997. Board and given the name wyatt. This is a chart from the age of two, twoandahalf, identified as they grow. If when i see identified as a girl, didnt say to her parents i think im a girl, said wed like it to be a girl . You know, wed like it to look like a girl . Believed she was a girl and twon middleclass ordinary parents living in the state of maine, need to figure out what that was about. T how host how do they figure it out, or did they . Guest they did. Video of the book is really the mother. These twins were adopted atbirt birth. Kelly knew there were two things that were most important to her as a mother. Ha make sure that her children were safe and happy. She had
Marty, i, i am the executive editor of the Washington Post. The Washington Post is a charter sponsor the National Book festival since the beginning and we are happy to do it again this year. The Library Library of congress has been the festival toast since the festival began 16 years ago. We want to thank the chairman of the festival and the many National Book festival sponsors who made the event possible this year. You can make a donation to the festival by checking the information in your program, there is to be time for question afterward and this is being filmed as well. You should know that. It to her speaker, the Washington Post has gratified to have some of the finest National Security reporters in the country and a standout among them is it joe b warrant. When you read black flakes, the rise of isis youll see why. And the most revealing portrait yet offal zarqawi, founding father of the organization that became the Islamic State. As our country aims to destroy isis and as isis
And the most revealing portrait yet offal zarqawi, founding father of the organization that became the Islamic State. As our country aims to destroy isis and as isis seeks to metastasize beyond iraq and syria, there could not be a more urgent and timely treatment of this subject. As isis and Terrorism Take center stage in a president ial race, this book offers a refuge in actual facts. Imagine that. [laughter] and in an absorbing history of our times and in a sober assessment of failures across the political and governmental landscape. For good reason, black flags this year was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. The judges described it as a brilliant and definitive history that reveals the long arc of todays most dangerous extremist threat. All of us at the post were enormously proud when the pulitzer recognized the excellence of the work, and it was not, by the way, the first time they had done so. The prize for black flags is his second pulitzer. In the two decades sin